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Literary Periods of British and American Literature Periods of British Literature 1500-1660 : The Renaissance 1660-1785 : The Neoclassical Period 1785-1830 : The Romantic Period 1832-1901 : The Victorian Period 1901-1914 : The Edwardian Period 1910-1936 : The Georgian Period 1914-1945 : The Modern Period 1945-Present : Postmodern Period American Literature 1607-1776 : Colonial Period 1765-1790 : The Revolutionary Age 1775-1828 : The Early National Period 1828-1865 : The Romantic Period (Also known as: The American Renaissance or The Age of Transcendentalism) 1865-1900 : The Realistic Period 1900-1914 : The Naturalistic Period 1914-1939 : American Modernist Period

1500-1650 : The Renaissance and the Reformation The English Literary Renaissance consists of four subsets: The Elizabethan Age, Lyric poetry, prose, and drama William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Ben Jonson. the Jacobean Age, During this time the literature became sophisticated, somber, and conscious of social abuse and rivalry. the King James translation of the Bible. Shakespeare and Jonson wrote during the Jacobean Age, as well as John Donne, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Middleton. the Caroline Age, and the The writers of this age wrote with refinement and elegance. the Commonwealth Period includes the literature produced during the time of Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell.

1650-1800 : The Restoration (of the monarchy), the Age of Enlightenment (Age of Reason). 1700-1745 : The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope) refers to literature with the predominant characteristics of refinement, clarity, elegance, and balance of judgment. Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Daniel Defoe. the first English novel by Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1745-1785 : The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson) literature reflected the worldview of Enlightenment and began to emphasize instinct and feeling, rather than judgment and restraint.

1785-1830 : The Romantic Period Romantic literature can be characterized by its personal nature, its strong use of feeling, its abundant use of symbolism, and its exploration of nature and the supernatural. innovative based on their belief that literature should be spontaneous, imaginative, personal, and free. The Romantic Period produced a wealth of authors including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, and Lord Byron. Gothic literature was born. Two of the most famous Gothic novelists are Anne Radcliffe and Mary Shelley.

1832-1901 : The Victorian Period Victorian literature deals with the issues and problems of the day. Some contemporary issues that the Victorians dealt with include the social, economic, religious, and intellectual issues and problems surrounding the Industrial Revolution, growing class tensions, the early feminist movement, pressures toward political and social reform, and the impact of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution on philosophy and religion. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, her husband Robert, Matthew Arnold, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy.

1901-1914 : The Edwardian Period the British Empire was at its height and the wealthy lived lives of materialistic luxury. However, four fifths of the English population lived in squalor. The writings of the Edwardian Period reflect and comment on these social conditions. George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells attacked social injustice and the selfishness of the upper classes. William Butler Yeats, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, and E.M. Forster.

1914-1945 : The Modern Period The authors of the Modern Period have experimented with subject matter, form, and style and have produced achievements in all literary genres. Poets of the period include Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Seamus Heaney. Novelists include James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf.

American Literature 1607-1776 : Colonial Period 1765-1790 : The Revolutionary Age 1775-1828 : The Early National Period 1828-1865 : The Romantic Period (Also known as: The American Renaissance or The Age of Transcendentalism) 1865-1900 : The Realistic Period 1900-1914 : The Naturalistic Period 1914-1939 : American Modernist Period